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• TITLE: Investigating Evacuation Trends and Restoration Processes from Serious Earthquake Damage in Japan

  AUTHORS: Habib Sufian, Tatsuo Oyama

  KEYWORDS: Earthquake, Evacuees, Restoration Process, Statistical Data Analysis, Public Utilities, Mathematical Model, Social Infrastructure

  JOURNAL NAME: American Journal of Operations Research, Vol.11 No.1, January 22, 2021

  ABSTRACT: Japan has experienced many large-scale natural disasters, such as earthquakes, typhoons accompanied by heavy rain, and landslides. Based on data for the damage caused by four recent major earthquakes in Japan, we investigate the trends in the number of evacuees and evacuation centres after these disasters as well as the restoration processes for public utilities such as electricity, gas, water, and communication lines. We compare the restoration speeds and trends of the damaged infrastructure systems. We also propose various mathematical models to approximate the recovery trends using both evacuee-related data and damage recovery process data. These results can be used to design natural disaster mitigation policies not only in Japan, but also in other countries. The results of various statistical data analyses and mathematical modelling techniques are applied to provide policy suggestions.